So this sweet boy may or may not have given me a run for my money. Our first attempt at our session did go so smooth. Poor guy was fussy and uncomfortable the whole time, we tried for a few hours and decided...ok lets reschedule. So I came back 1 week later and OH MY GOODNESS! He was perfect, perfect, perfect! I even got a few smiles!!! SO needless to say, he kind of melted my heart.

Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Ok so this session is one that is special to me. I met Kathleen while pregnant, searching craigslist for a photographer to capture the birth of my daughter. I came across her photography and feel in love with her work. Since then she has photographed my family. He work inspired me to really go for my passion and my dream of photography. I asked if she would mentor me, expecting her to decline, I got a YES! Oh boy did she really help start something (obviously). So when she asked me to take photos of her and her girls I was ecstatic! and nervous. She has since become a dear friend and I still can't thank her enough for all her help!

Sunday, September 15, 2013

Liz contacted me a while about about doing a maternity session but ended up backing out because her husband was away for training, as he is in the Marine Corps. Once he came home we booked our session! Liz and Eric are expecting their first child and I am positive that will be one GORGEOUS baby!

Also, like a true man, Eric went nuts over this GIANT spider I almost walked into. I nearly gave me a heart attack but was pretty cool once I stopped and looked at it. But needless to say, once I saw it...we moved away from it...far far far away!

The Bolton family is simply one of pure cuteness and love! We did our session at a very particularly special location...this family LOVES to go fishing and this creek is where their youngest boy, Gavin caught his first fish!! How cute is that!? So of course, we went down and they wanted to fish. These little boys are utterly perfectly handsome!

Friday, September 13, 2013

Everyone, this is Alice. Alice kind of is my hero.
Why you ask, well ok let me explain.

Before meeting Alice I knew nothing about her, she
was a new client wanting a maternity session and a birth session when the time
comes. So OF COURSE I said yes, we all know how much I love baby belly and
newborns! Our session started out a little...slow. haha! Pregnancy brain and a
tired body took over and miss Alice slept through her alarms for our morning
session! It was kind of cute actually. I remember being there not to long ago
so I totally relate!

Along our session, after talking extensively (most
because i gab a lot!) I learned a little more about Alice and her story. She is
a breast cancer survivor and a patients rights activist who is the founder
of Fertile Action, a
non-profit for fertile women touched by cancer. She is also
the founder of My Vision, Inc., a consumer products company that is
also home to the My Vision PhotoTherapy Program for breast cancer
patients to help women transition through the many challenging phases of
breast cancer treatment.

Within weeks of her own breast cancer diagnosis,
Alice harvested her eggs to protect her opportunity to become a mom after
surviving cancer, had a nude photography session, launched Fertile Action and
published her first book, Too Young for This. Her processing choices of a
cancer diagnosis at 31-years-old are chronicled in her book and hailed by
others as a must read for loved ones of those touched by cancer. She is also a
regular columnist on the Huffington
Post www.huffingtonpost.com/alice-crisci and travels the country as a
fertility preservation spokeswoman for the California Cryobank, educating
others on fertility preservation.

Alice was appointed a member of the prestigious
Advisory Council for Young Women and Breast Cancer, named by Lifetime
Networks “Remarkable Woman – Unsung Hero” of October 2009, was awarded a
Courage Award from Assembly member Ted Lieu, named Fabulous Female of Los
Angeles 2009, and has been featured on The Today Show in three countries,
Nightline, The Doctors, numerous print and online publications and Women’s
Health magazine.

I am very happy and excited to say she will be
having a healthy baby boy any day now (she was due October 4th). I can not wait
to be there for the birth of her little miracle.

If you want to read some more about her personal
story, you can visit:

Behind the Lens

Hello! My name is Tiffany Snell. First and foremost I am a mother and wife. I'm also what you call a bit of a photography enthusiast. Since I was a very young girl, I've always been drawn to pictures, be they in magazines, books, photo albums or even on the walls of local businesses. There's just something about the amalgam of colors, shapes, faces and light coming together in perfect harmony that I find irrevocably fascinating. I've always believed that the best photos are those that are hard to look away from. The kind that catch your eye and make you want to study every tiny pixel. And when you think you've seen it all, you have to look back just once more to make sure you didn't miss anything. Those are the kinds of photos I strive to take every single day at Forever Moments Photography. Photos that are engaging, compelling and worthy of displaying proudly in your home.